Bats

Bats (order Chiroptera ) are winged mammals; the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more agile in flight than most birds, flying with their long spread-out digits covered with a thin membrane or patagium. The smallest bat, and one of the smallest extant mammals, is Kitti's hog-nosed bat, which is in length, across the forearm and in mass. The largest bats are the flying foxes, with the giant golden-crowned flying fox (Acerodon jubatus) reaching a weight of and having a wingspan of .

thumb|Nose-leaf diagram of a horseshoe bat

The subfamily Cynopterinae ("flying dogs") comprises 24 species of pteropodid bats distributed exclusively in South and Southeast Asia.

Eptescini is a tribe of bats in the family Vespertilionidae. This tribe has a cosmopolitan distribution.